• Late Beatle George Harrison Remembered On 75th Birthday

    On Sunday, the music industry and the whole world celebrated the birthday of George Harrison, lead guitarist and a songwriter for The Beatles. Paul McCartney led the social media in celebrating the life and career of the late music icon.

  • Ringo Starr: Beatles Were Worried That US Would Ignore Them

    Ringo Starr, the drummer of the iconic band The Beatles, celebrated his 76th birthday on Thursday at the Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles California. During the festivities, he talked about the message of peace and love and how worried he and his bandmates were when they first came to the United States.

  • Traveling Wilburys' 'Handle With Care' Revived By Britt Daniel, Wayne Coyne, Brandon Flowers

    A band of unlikely collaborators - Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynn, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and George Harrison - once joined together to make what is nothing less than the world's finest supergroup ever, The Traveling Wilburys. Now, for the upcoming concert and film 'George Fest: A Night to Celebrate the Music of George Harrison', another unlikely group of musicians have assembled. In advance of the film, the creators have released footage of Spoon's Britt Daniel, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, The Killer's Brandon Flowers, Norah Jones, Weird Al Yankovic, Harrison's son Dhani, and Big Black Delta's Jonathan Bates, among others, covering the Wilbury's "Handle With Care."

  • George Harrison Tribute Concert Drops Trailer, Will Release on CD and Blu-Ray

    Los Angeles' Fonda Theater brought together the eclectic and talented group of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, the Killers' Brandon Flowers, Heart's Ann Wilson, Norah Jones, Conan O'Brien, Flaming Lips, Weird Al Yankovic and more to pay tribute to George Harrison on September 28, 2014, just days after what would've been the Beatle's 73rd birthday. Now, 'George Fest: A Night To Celebrate The Music Of George Harrison,' will be available for purchase on CD and DVD.

  • Bob Dylan's Biggest Non-Newport Folk Festival Performances: Concert for Bangladesh, More

    Fans and promoters at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island will spend the entire weekend celebrating the 50th anniversary of the occasion when Bob Dylan first took the stage with an electric guitar, thrilling some of the audience and alienating just as many, who felt betrayed by the folk icon taking a more rock 'n' roll approach to his genre. Given 50 years to think about it, and excellent albums such as Highway 61 Revisited as a result, the folks at Newport are feeling a bit more generous about what is now considered one of the most iconic live appearances of all time. It certainly goes down as the most momentous concert in Dylan's career, but don't think that he hasn't played a few other "big" shows in a career that stretches nearly 60 years. Here are a few other big live moments for The Bard.

  • Kurt Cobain, The Beatles and Michael Jackson: Bad Musician Statues

    A humorous petition has suggested that Outkast's Andre 3000 and Big Boi be carved into Georgia's historic Stone Mountain, a monument near Atlanta that's drawn controversy for its homage to the Confederacy in the form of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in Mt. Rushmore-style. Our official stance at Music Times is that the ATLiens riding in a Cadillac on the side of the mountain wouldn't hurt. And, even if it does border on the absurd, it wouldn't be the worst statue of a musician to be erected. Alas, The Beatles, Kurt Cobain and Michael Jackson (especially Michael Jackson) have been subjected to attempted memorials that fall way short of tastefulness.

  • George Harrison's 1963 Maton Guitar Sells at Auction for $485,000

    The guitar George Harrison once played during the Beatles live summer performances in 1963 sold at Julien's Auctions on Friday for $485,000. The auction at New York's Hard Rock Café closely focused on rare belongings within music history. Michael Jackson's black sequined glove, a Madonna worn American flag tank top and Elvis Presley's marriage license and tour bus were also auctioned off.

  • 5 Bad Vocalist Solo Debuts, from David Lee Roth to Nearly All of The Beatles

    On this date 30 years ago, Freddie Mercury of Queen released his first solo album, Mr. Bad Guy...and it failed drastically, at least from a commercial standpoint. It seems odd now—when a solo album from Brandon Flowers or other vocalists attached to a big-name band can release an album by themselves and land in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 without breaking a sweat—that one of the liveliest frontmen in rock history couldn't get into the Top 150 of the album sales charts with his first solo release. That said (and despite the cheesy image of Mercury in shades on the album cover), Mr. Bad Guy ain't a bad record. That can't be said about the solo debuts of these other famous vocalists, from The Beatles' members to David Lee Roth.
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